Ivi PROCEEDINGS. 



rections. But Halliwell gives it as Westmoreland for an uproar, so that 

 it is probably old English. 



Scred, a piece or fragment. It seems the same as " shred," the 

 Anglo-Saxon screade. Webster gives Provincial English screed, 



Seeming, judgment or opinion. Given in dictionaries as obsolete, but 

 used by the best writers of the past. Thus Milton has 

 The persuasive words impregnd 

 With reason to her seeming. Paradixe Lost, ix. 738. 



And Hooker says, " Nothing more clear to their seeming." 



In Newfoundland, the sled or sleigh of the continent, the sledge of 

 the English, is called a slide, but according to Wright this is the original 

 form in old English. So shard is used as in Shakspeare's time and as 

 still in some Provincial dialects of England to denote broken pieces of 

 pottery. 



Spaneel, as a noun, denoting " a rope to tie a cows hind legs " and as 

 a verb to " tie with a rope." In the dictionaries it is given as Provincial 

 English and an English gentleman informs me that the word is still in 

 common use in Yorkshire. 



8pell from Anglo-Saxon spelian means in old English, as a verb, to 

 supply the place of another, or to take a turn of work with him, and as a 

 noun, the relief afforded by one taking the place of another at work for 

 a time. In a similar sense it is used in Newfoundland. A Newfound- 

 lander speaking of seals as swiles was asked how they spelled the word, 

 replied, " We don't spell them, we generally haul them." It is however 

 specially used to denote carrying on the back or shoulders. " He has 

 just spelled a load of wood out," meaning he has carried it on his back. 

 It is also applied to distance, as " How far did you carry that load," 

 Answer, " Three shoulders spells" meaning as far as one could carry 

 without resting more than three times. In connection with this I may 

 note that the word turn is used to denote what a man can carry. " He 

 went into the country for a turn of good," that is as much as he can 

 carry on his back. The Standard Dictionary mentions it as having the 

 same meaning locally in the United States. 



Starve, viz., with cold or frost. I have heard the same in Nova 

 Scotia. Johnson gives it as a verb neuter, with one of its meanings 

 " to be killed with cold," and as active with the meaning to " kill with 

 cold " and quotes Milton's line, 



From beds of raging fire to starve in ice. 



